Shell script help

[Nils Kassube]

Colin Law wrote:
> To clarify, a script called, for example, using something like
> myscript "the path*"    note the trailing *
> 
> and in myscript something like
> 
> for f in /a/b/"$1"/*.txt
> where this is to be interpreted as
> for f in /a/b/the\ path*/*.txt

You could set IFS to "\n\t" [1] to eliminate the problem of spaces in 
the filename an then omit the quotes around "$1" - something like this:

IFS="$(printf '\n\t')"
for f in /a/b/$1/*.txt

But I'm not sure if that would be safe with arbitrary directory names.


Nils

[1] <http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html#ifs>